Developer Productivity of BPM 12c. Presentation by Lucas Jellema during the BPM track of the AMIS SOA and BPM Suite 12c launch event on July 17, 2014

1. Developer Productivity
Lucas Jellema, 17-07-2014
BPM Suite 12c Deep-Dive

2. BPM 12c Themes

3. BPM 12.1.3
Developer Features
• Quick Start
• Process Instance Expiration
• Business Parameters
• Skip and Back Error Handling
• Suspend and Resume Process Flow Object
• Business Catalog Enhancements
• Scripting
• Debugging
• Visual Diff/Merge – for process imported into JDeveloper (BPM Studio)
from Process Composer
• Migration Tools
• Process Asset Manager (MDS Based) for collaboration between BPM
Studio and BPM Process Composer
• Benefits from JDeveloper and SOA Suite enhancements
– BPM application == SOA [SCA] Composite

4. BPM Quick Start Install
• Integrated JDeveloper
– Installs both design-time
& run-time
• Eliminates Complexity
– One screen Install
– 30 minutes to install
and run BPM Samples
• Reduced Memory footprint

5. Force Commit on Activity
Completion
• Commits state of BPM instance
– Can be used to avoid re-invoke of activity in case of rollback

6. Process Instance Expiration
• Process Instance Expiration
– Pre-defined
variable
– Get/Set supported
– BPM run-time
throws timeout event
– Timeout can be caught
and handled using
Event Subprocess

7. Business Parameters
• Used for setting
business specific
constants and can be
overridden for an
Organization Unit
• If there is no override
value for Org Unit, the
returned value will be the
default value
Default value for Business Parameter
Business Parameter overridden for Organization Unit

8. Catch Exception Based on
Business Object
• New Options for
Business Exception
Handling
– Business Exception
“errorInfo” attribute can
be set to Business Object
– Boundary Events can
catch Business Exception
based on Business
Object

9. Suspend and Resume
Process instance
• You can suspend a running flow object, a process or a subprocess
– By a Boundary Event (can be a message event, a timer event or a signal
event)
– By an Event SubProcess
• When process instance reaches the flow object with the boundary event,
the main process flow is suspended and the BPM runtime runs the event
handler sequence flow: the alternative sequence flow
• Then optionally the process instance can be returned to main flow
– Set action to resume to resume the suspended flow object | process | subprocess
– Set action to send to move the process instance to the next flow object | .. | ..

10. Skip and Back Error Handling
• Upon exception in process
flow, we can try to re-run
the failed flow object,
move to the next flow
object or continue with
exception handling
• Set action variable to
– OK
– SKIP
– BACK

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Business Catalog Enhancements and Groovy Script …
Business Objects …
•Inheritance
•Enumerations
•Methods implemented in
Groovy Script

12. Groovy Script Can Be Used In
Script Activity
• Can perform operations that would otherwise be done with XSLT

13. Debugger
• Scope
– Process
– Subprocess
– Event
Subprocess
– Child process
• Debug actions
– Step-into
– Step-over
– Step-out
– Resume

14. Debugger
• Inspect and modify data
– Data Objects (both
Simple and Complex)
– Instance Attributes
(Process and Activity)
– Conversation and
Correlation properties
– Create “Watches”

15. Migration Tool
 Applicable to 10gR3 BPM customers
 Easy-to-run Ant based tool
 Output : 12c exp file and a Migration Report
 Constructs Migrated
 With Equivalent : 100% migrated (Ex: Interactive task)
 Comparable : migrated on best-effort basis
 No direct equivalent : functional equivalent in stack

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